As a tool Khan Academy will benefit educators, students, and parents in a quest for knowledge, practice, and reinforcement. It will not, however, be a game-changing reform agent as the private sector sees it.
Dr. Keith Devlin | Posted 04.26.2012
Successful Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who clearly understand the importance of understanding the market and testing how effective their products are seem to leave those important instincts at the door when they comment on K-12 education.
Matt Weber | Posted 12.27.2011
The Harvard EdCast took a few minutes this month to get to know Sal Khan and candidly explore his pedagogy.
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 07.19.2011
On Tuesday, Fast Company celebrated the most creative people in business by again identifying the world's most innovative minds in "The 100 Most Creat...
HuffingtonPost.com | Alex Wagner | Posted 06.04.2011
The battle over America's classrooms -- featuring broom-wielding reformers pitted against long-powerful teacher's unions -- has created a firestorm of debate around the question of how best to educate students and prepare them for the 21st Century. Sitting on the sidelines of this battle -- however quietly, for now -- is a man named Sal Khan. A one-time hedge fund analyst, Khan has become an unlikely hero in education circles for his innovative methodology, one that turns the classroom dynamic upside down.
Michael Horn | Posted 05.25.2011
The Khan Academy -- a nonprofit that has over 1,800 videos for free on the Web -- has attracted such an impressive following that they have more viewers than even MIT's open courses on YouTube.
CNN Money | David A. Kaplan, Contributor | Posted 05.25.2011
Sal Khan, you can count Bill Gates as your newest fan. Gates is a voracious consumer of online education. This past spring a colleague at his small th...
Eric Sheninger | Posted 04.24.2012